GAZA AND THE PALESTINE QUESTION

Israeli War Crimes: From the U.S. Liberty (1967) to the Humanitarian Flotilla (2010) James Petras

Truth and Consequences in the Gaza Invasion Norman Finkelstein

United Nations Report Accuses Israel of War Crimes in Gaza

U.S. Rejects U.N. Proposal to Compel War Crimes Probes of Gaza Conflict
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/17/AR2009091704278.html

Goldstone findings will put Netanyahu on defensive at UN
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1115579.html

Disgrace in the Hague
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1115240.html

Goldstone: Holocaust shaped view on war crimes

Netanyahu asks world to reject Goldstone findings

Israeli War Crimes: Under the Black Flag Uri Avnery

A Spanish judge has instituted a judicial inquiry against seven Israeli political and military personalities on suspicion of war crimes and crimes against humanity.

Justice or Jungle: the Primacy of International Law, Andreas van Agt, Former Prime Minister of the Netherlands.

The Israeli construction of a wall in the Occupied Palestinian Territory was ruled illegal by a United Nations panel. It is ‘a shocking picture of boundless disrespect for international law’.

Caribbean Feminist Network for Research and Action of Trinidad and Tobago (CAFRA T&T) Statement on Israel’s War on Gaza

The right to exist applies not only to the people of Israel but also to the people of Palestine. For over 60 years, the people of Palestine have suffered expulsion, indignity, occupation and repression. They have become the wretched of the earth..

The Palestine-Israeli Question: South Bulletin January 2009

Yash Tandon are on “The Palestine-Israel Question : There is another way out of the dilemma”; John Pilger on “Holocaust Denied: The lying silence of those who know”; Miguel d’Escoto Brockmann on “End the Scourge of War”; Navanethem Pillay on “Accountability Must Be Ensured for Violations of International Law” and Mahatma Gandhi in 1946 on the Palestine Question.

Israel’s Lies Henry Siegman, London Review of Books, 29 January 2009

Western governments and most of the Western media have accepted a number of Israeli claims justifying the military assault on Gaza: that Hamas consistently violated the six-month truce that Israel observed and then refused to extend it; that Israel therefore had no choice but to destroy Hamas’s capacity to launch missiles into Israeli towns; that Hamas is a terrorist organisation, part of a global jihadi network; and that Israel has acted not only in its own defence but on behalf of an international struggle by Western democracies against this network.

Middle East peacemaking has been smothered in deceptive euphemisms, so let me state bluntly that each of these claims is a lie…

The One State Solution Muammar Quadaffi

In absolute terms, the two movements must remain in perpetual war or a compromise must be reached. The compromise is one state for all, an “Isratine” that would allow the people in each party to feel that they live in all of the disputed land and they are not deprived of any one part of it.

“Exterminate All the Brutes”: Gaza 2009 Noam Chomsky

Israel is deliberately turning itself into perhaps the most hated country in the world, and is also losing the allegiance of the population of the West, including younger American Jews, who are unlikely to tolerate its persistent shocking crimes for long. Decades ago, I wrote that those who call themselves “supporters of Israel” are in reality supporters of its moral degeneration and probable ultimate destruction. Regrettably, that judgment looks more and more plausible.

Isn’t It Time For A War Crimes Tribunal? Robert Fisk

It’s a wrap, a doddle, an Israeli ceasefire just in time for Barack Obama to have a squeaky-clean inauguration with all the world looking at the streets of Washington rather than the rubble of Gaza. Condi and Ms Livni thought their new arms-monitoring agreement - reached without a single Arab being involved - would work.

What the US knew and chose to forget in 1948 and why it matters in 2009 Irene Gendzier, Professor of Poltical Science, Boston University

From Washington’s perspective, irrespective of the administration in power, Tel Aviv has played a critical role in the protection of US interests in the Middle East, with the tacit collaboration of Washington’s reactionary Arab allies. In this context, the fate of the 1.5 million residents of Gaza, as that of Palestinians in the West Bank, is and has long been, entirely expendable.

How to Inflame the Entire Muslim World Gabriel Kolko

One thing is certain. Israel has killed at least 100 Palestinians for each of its own claimed losses, a vast disproportion that has produced horror in much of the world, creating a new cause which has mobilized countless numbers of people—possibly as strong as the Vietnam war movement. It has made itself a pariah nation—save in the United States and a few other countries. Above all, it has enflamed the entire Muslim world.

Operation Unpunished Lead Eduardo Galeano

Where does this impunity, with which Israel is carrying out the killings in Gaza, derive from? The Spanish government could not have bombed Basque country with impunity to finish off ETA; neither could the British government have destroyed Ireland to liquidate the IRA. Perhaps the tragedy of the Holocaust entails a policy of everlasting impunity? Or that the green light comes from the bigshot power which has in Israel the most unquestioning of its vassals?

...and Olmert Smote the Philistines John Maxwell

IT’S a time-tested method used for more than 4,000 years; people always get killed but nothing is ever settled. God confided to Moses that he was giving the Israelites title to the land of Canaan. There was one small problem: lots of other people were already living in Canaan, and had been for ages. So, in order to enforce the Israelites’ title, Joshua had to clear the land.

Israel Courting Doomsday Raffique Shah

SOME 40 years or so ago, in the heady days of Black Power and the global fight for basic human and civil rights by non-Whites, I saw all White people as oppressors. I was a young firebrand, who, in the universal spirit of my revolutionary hero Cuban Che Guevara, was ready to fight against injustices wherever they existed. I actually lived out part of my utopian dream by taking up arms against “the establishment”, a feat many of my contemporaries also dreamed of, but never experienced.

The horrors of Gaza David Abdulah

Let us be totally clear about the Palestinian issue. In 1948, following the Second World War and no doubt with much guilt about the holocaust, the west — led by Britain and the US — decided that the state of Palestine should no longer exist and that there should be created in its stead the state of Israel. In one fell swoop, therefore, millions of Palestinians were made not only homeless, but stateless.